And on the pedestal these words appear:`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life is pretty simple:You do some stuff.Most fails. Some works.You do more of what works.- Leonardo da Vinci

You can't stay the same.If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change,that's the way it works.- Van Morrison

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.- Lewis Carroll

Our individual lives cannot, generally,be works of art unless the social order is also.- Charles Horton Cooley

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.Design is how it works.- Steve Jobs

Optimism is the harmony between man's spiritand of God pronouncing His works good.- Helen Keller

What does it profit, my brethren,if someone says he has faith but does not have works?Can faith save him?- James 2:14

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federalgovernment but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.- Ronald Reagan

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.- Helen Gahagan

More books, more racing and more foolishness with carsand motorcycles are in the works.- Brock Yates

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal.When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.- Joseph Wood Krutch

The only rock I know that stays steady,the only institution I know that works,is the family.- Lee Iacocca

Whenever I fail as a father or husband...a toy and a diamond always works.- Shahrukh Khan

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticketand rejoices that the system works.- Bill Vaughan

My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want to share with you the three rulesthat I have in order to accept an apprentice.Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.I don't want you to believe mebut I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.And by believing yourself, you create all the limitationsthat don't allow you to be what you really are.Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,open your intelligence and make choices.Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.Don't believe them at all.Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.- don Miguel Ruiz

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball.Unfortunately, neither of them works.- Charley Lau

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a supportfor their new works collaborate with the creator.- Antonio Gaudi

Capitalism works better from every perspective whenthe economic decision makers are forced to share powerwith those who will be affected by those decisions.- Barney Frank

Design works if it's authentic, inspired,and has a clear point of view.It can't be a collection of input.- Ron Johnson

My mother always called me an ugly weed,so I never was aware of anything until I was older.Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful.Sometimes this works miracles.- Hedy Lamarr

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects inthe material universe to possess internal order,and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters,I do believe in Art for Art's sake.- E. M. Forster

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned,in the first place, to the various works of Nature,to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore,and to offer such useful observations on the differentproductions as may occur.- William Bartram

A child does not notice the greatness and the beautyof nature and the splendor of God in his works.- Rudolf Otto

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error.It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.- Martin Gore

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.- Ed Harris

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.- Rosa Parks

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life,every quality of his mind is written large in his works.- Virginia Woolf

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul,the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the worksput out by every day American publishers.- Alma Gluck

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.- Jon Postel

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding,clothing and sheltering our brothers,we must indoctrinate.- Dorothy Day

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.- Andrew Weil

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.- T. E. Kalem

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works,too.- Robert Half

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.- Gilbert Murray

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament,they don't know right doctrine, right correction,and they can't be equipped for good works.- Randall Terry

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married.She works for Cornell Computer Services.- Kenneth G. Wilson

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.- Robert Kirkman

Works of art produced in the contemporary world area further expression of that.But I don't think there is an active,ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.- Leonard Baskin

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest worksstay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.- Walter Smith

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual worksever yet given to the race.- Sri Aurobindo

I try something new every night.It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a fewmore times and then move that off and try something new.It's a great workshop for me.- Kate Clinton

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had isthat more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.- Naguib Mahfouz

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love,well, it works both ways.- Chuck Palahniuk

This is not about being liberal.This is not about being conservative.This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.- Francine Busby

Art and works of art do not make an artist;sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world.It is a complex supercomputer and it will take foreverto completely describe how it works.- Philip Emeagwali

People are so helpful.People will stop what they're doing to show you something,to walk with you through a section of the town,or explain how a suspension bridge really works.- David McCullough

You get the software you pay for.In every sense.To the nth degree.That's the way the world works.- Dave Winer

Sheer flattery got me into the theater.Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.- Carroll O'Connor

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterateI don't know how it all works.But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist,Peter.- Bobby Sherman

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails,but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.- Jan Garbarek

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supremeforce above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Cricket needs brightening up a bit.My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game,not after.It always works in our picnic matches.- Paul Hogan

With Dollars And Cents on the album,we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend eveningsplaying with records over the top of things we wereworking on to see what works.- Colin Greenwood

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.- Larry Niven

While the creative works from the 16th century canstill be accessed and used by others,the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.- Lawrence Lessig

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort,being without defensive works,except two block-houses.- Francis Parkman

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five yearsthat it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes.We literally do not know how he did it.- Lukas Foss

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema,and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.- Julie Christie

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.- Philip Roth

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler,but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war;have not yet been republished there.- Herman Hesse